The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 1James Anderson Mundell and son, 1791 |
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... turn , may reafon upon the fact , and publish it in other works . Error may thus be propagated among millions who never shall have an opportunity of get- ing these false notions corrected . This could not happen , fhould the in- tended ...
... turn , may reafon upon the fact , and publish it in other works . Error may thus be propagated among millions who never shall have an opportunity of get- ing these false notions corrected . This could not happen , fhould the in- tended ...
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... turn of thought ; a correctness and purity of language ; cafe and elegance of arrangement , and sprightliness of file , when devoid of affectation ; will be accounted principal excellencies . Subjects that are cheerful and sportive will ...
... turn of thought ; a correctness and purity of language ; cafe and elegance of arrangement , and sprightliness of file , when devoid of affectation ; will be accounted principal excellencies . Subjects that are cheerful and sportive will ...
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... turn from the fight of verse , though he would be enraptured with genuine poetry , should it fall in his way . Should thefe fmall allurements call forth a number of trifles of this fort , the editor would feel be bad placed bimfelf in ...
... turn from the fight of verse , though he would be enraptured with genuine poetry , should it fall in his way . Should thefe fmall allurements call forth a number of trifles of this fort , the editor would feel be bad placed bimfelf in ...
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... turn next winter , he , preferring London to Edinburgh , went thither . There his fingular neatness in diffecting , and uncom- mon dexterity in making anatomical preparations , his affiduity in study , his mildness of manner , and ...
... turn next winter , he , preferring London to Edinburgh , went thither . There his fingular neatness in diffecting , and uncom- mon dexterity in making anatomical preparations , his affiduity in study , his mildness of manner , and ...
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... avoid a hea- vier calamity . My diftreffes have been greater than I ever owned , or ever will own to any man . Such evils are terrible to bear ; but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose . If I live , 16 Dec. 22 , THE BEE , ...
... avoid a hea- vier calamity . My diftreffes have been greater than I ever owned , or ever will own to any man . Such evils are terrible to bear ; but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose . If I live , 16 Dec. 22 , THE BEE , ...
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Página 136 - But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Página 71 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, .Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Página 108 - Master will do more Work than both his Hands; and again, Want of Care does us more Damage than Want of Knowledge; and again. Not to oversee Workmen, is to leave them your Purse open. Trusting too much to others' Care is the Ruin of many; for, as the Almanack says.
Página 71 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Página 34 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Página 148 - At present, perhaps, you may think yourself in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury; but, For age and want, save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day, as Poor Richard says.
Página 148 - Creditors are a superstitious Sect, great Observers of set Days and Times. The Day comes round before you are aware, and the Demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it; or if you bear your Debt in Mind, the Term which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens, appear extremely short.
Página 106 - Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy...
Página 33 - I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men...
Página 34 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...